A new world order is taking shape so fast that governments as well as private citizens find it difficult just to absorb the gallop of events.

The model of the consumer society is something that will one day end. My personal view is that too much consumption is wrong.

We used to have just one criterion and that was profit, and then another criterion was added - social welfare. Now we have to add the third important criterion, and that is nature and the environment.

What we're talking about is creating new forms of life on the basis of new values.

It is better to see once than to hear a hundred times.

The human race has entered a stage where we are all dependent on each other. No other country or nation should be regarded in total separation from another, let alone pitted against another.

Now that we are rid of this syndrome of imposing the communist model on people, now that we've given them the chance to get rid of this dogma, I have to tell you Americans that you've been pushing your American way of life for decades. You thought it was perfection itself, the ultimate achievement of human thought... There has to be a different approach... Americans have to be more modest in their desires. We have to stimulate human qualities in people rather than greed.